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    "id": 980486,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah,",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, even as I appreciate what Hon. Wamunyinyi is saying, I want to support what the Leader of Majority said regarding the Questions. For those of us who spend time in this Chamber, you will agree with me that most of the Questions by Members of Parliament either pertain to issues to do with security or roads. Therefore, the two Committees are likely to receive the highest number of Questions. Unfortunately, the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security has become notorious of not following upon Questions asked by Members of Parliament. This is because among the Questions that seem to have disappeared somewhere – if I may use Hon. Wamunyinyi’s words – is a Question I asked last year concerning the Department of Immigration. It was about foreigners working in this country without permits from the Ministry and other government agencies. As a consequence, you recently saw a Chinese national whipping a Kenyan who was working in a hotel. If the Chairman of the Committee on Administration and National Security had taken the work of this House seriously and called the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for National Treasury, the Ministry concerned and the Department of Immigration; we would have probably arrested the kind of scenarios we are seeing today of Chinese nationals whipping Kenyans. Kenyans are being punished for being poor. It is only right that the Chair, when he returns from his trip, comes before the House and submits a full list. However, I appreciate what Hon. Wamunyinyi has done on his behalf. This is a House of records and there cannot be Questions disappearing somehow! Those Questions disappear because people are afraid. People do not want to call the CS for Interior and Coordination of National Government to be held accountable by this House. That is the only work we have been elected to do, that is, to represent them here."
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